Timeline June 1928

Events in June 1928 14

• 1858 – 1928 Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928) Died 14 June 1928, aged 69 British suffragette leader who founded the Women's Social and Political Union in 1903. Its militant campaign was central to winning votes for women. She died weeks before the Equal Franchise Act gave women the vote on equal terms with men.
• 1872 – 1928 Roald Amundsen (1872-1928) Died 18 June 1928, aged 55 Norwegian polar explorer who led the first expedition to reach the South Pole in 1911 and first navigated the Northwest Passage. He flew over the North Pole in the airship Norge in 1926. He disappeared over the Barents Sea while flying to search for the crashed airship Italia.
• 1872 – 1928 Roald Amundsen South Pole Conqueror Led the first expedition to reach the South Pole on December 14, 1911.
• 1875 – 1928 Zhang Zuolin (1875-1928) Died 4 June 1928, aged 53 Chinese warlord known as the Old Marshal, who ruled Manchuria and controlled the Beiyang government in Beijing. He died when Japanese Kwantung Army officers bombed his train. His son Zhang Xueliang succeeded him.
• 1928 First trans-Pacific flight The Southern Cross flies from California to Australia Charles Kingsford Smith and his crew flew the Fokker monoplane Southern Cross from Oakland, California, to Brisbane, stopping in Hawaii and Fiji. It was the first flight across the Pacific. The journey covered about 11,600 kilometres.
• 1928 French Open 1928 Men: Henri Cochet · Women: Helen Wills First French Open at the new Stade Roland Garros, built to host the Davis Cup.
• 1928 Huanggutun incident Japanese officers assassinate warlord Zhang Zuolin Officers of Japan's Kwantung Army bombed Zhang Zuolin's train near Shenyang as he withdrew from Beijing. Zhang died hours later. The plot backfired when his son Zhang Xueliang aligned Manchuria with the Nationalist government.
• 1928 – 2024 Ruth Westheimer (1928-2024) Died 12 July 2024, aged 96 German-American sex therapist and broadcaster known to millions as Dr Ruth.
• 1928 – 2024 Gustavo Gutierrez (1928-2024) Died 22 October 2024, aged 96 Peruvian theologian and Dominican priest regarded as the father of liberation theology.
• 1928 – 2012 Maurice Sendak (1928-2012) Died 8 May 2012, aged 83 American writer and illustrator best known for the children's book "Where the Wild Things Are." His work reshaped what children's literature could depict emotionally.
• 1928 Amelia Earhart crosses the Atlantic by air First woman to fly across the Atlantic Amelia Earhart flew from Trepassey, Newfoundland, to Burry Port, Wales, as a passenger aboard the Fokker seaplane Friendship, piloted by Wilmer Stultz. The flight made her an international celebrity. She flew the Atlantic solo in 1932.
• 1928 – 2025 Jean-Marie Le Pen (1928-2025) Died 7 January 2025, aged 96 French nationalist who founded the National Front and led it from 1972 to 2011, the main right-wing opposition to France's mainstream conservatives for four decades.
• 1928 Shooting in the Yugoslav parliament Deputy Punisa Racic opens fire in the Skupstina Montenegrin Serb deputy Punisa Racic shot five Croatian Peasant Party deputies during a session in Belgrade. Two died at the scene, and party leader Stjepan Radic died of his wounds weeks later. The crisis led King Alexander to impose a royal dictatorship in January 1929.
• 1928 West End Blues -- the opening cadenza changes everything Armstrong records 'West End Blues' on 28 June 1928 -- and opens it with an unaccompanied trumpet cadenza of such brilliance that it redefines what the instrument can do. The cadenza lasts twelve seconds. It has no precedent in jazz and establishes the principle that the jazz soloist can command an audience alone, without harmonic or rhythmic support, purely through melodic invention and rhythmic authority. Gunther Schuller calls it 'the first unmistakable masterpiece in jazz.' Every subsequent jazz trumpet player -- Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Clifford Brown -- plays in Armstrong's shadow.